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[ SECRET POST #2414 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2414 ⌋

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[Akumu-chan / My Little Nightmare]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Deanna Troi]

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[The Borgias]

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[Kaiba Seto and Jounouchi Katsuya from Yu-gi-oh!]

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[Spring Breakers]

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[Murder Rooms]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Mass Effect]

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[Despicable Me 2]

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[Ice Age]

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[Arrested Development]

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[Super Junior]

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[Halloween]

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Any book to movie films that you find didn't ruin characterization/plot?? I'm not talking about minor details - no adaptation is perfect - but some of them are just so off the mark it isn't even funny (Looking at you, Vampire's Assistant).

How about improved? I felt that Interview with a Vampire (the movie) was much better than the book. The book was boring as hell.

The movie Schindler's List also improved upon the book. The novel is a really dry read (a lot of technical talk) that reads almost like a report. The movie has a much, much, much bigger emotional impact.

The Prestige and Jurassic park is supposed to be good adaptations (but I did not read the books).

Improved is cool - I felt Coraline the film was a big improvement.

Fight Club. I actually think it holds up a little better in movie form, tbph.

I had no idea that was a book.

The Hunger Games? c: oh, I was pretty pleased with Tomorrow When the War Began's movie rendition.

:o TWtWB was a book? I loved that movie and was sad when I'd heard it was supposed to be two parts but it didn't garner enough attention/money for the second part to be green lighted.

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Awakenings b/c it actually had character and plot (the book was written well before Dr. Sacks hit his nonfiction stride and so tends to run a little heavy towards the medical terminology than his later books). The movie was quite good.

Kay, obviously it's super stripped down, but I didn't mind the Series of Unfortunate Events movie. I haven't seen it in a while, but I thought it did a good job capturing the oppressive, mysterious tone of the books. Jim Carrey was pretty great. The design was nice. The characters didn't really shine through though, which is a shame.

But then I've never been super uptight about book-to-movie translation as some people. I get it, but I can't get super energetic about it. I mean, Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite HP book AND movie and well. Some of Cuaron's choices are just... baffling.

I find that Fight Club is a very competent adaptation of the book while being very much its own thing. I still prefer the book.

There's also Roadside Picnic (book) adapted into Stalker (film) -- they're very, very different beasts, the film being almost unrecognizable, but I think I actually prefer it, when I'm in my more artsy moods.

To Kill a Mockingbird. Peck was Finch.

I remember not liking it, actually, but I might give it another go - we read it literally right after finishing the book in high school, so that may have been a little disorienting.

I quite liked the Of Mice and Men movie, though I think it's pretty much taken word for word(bar a few scenes? It's been a while since I watched it) from the book, if anything it feels a bit longer to me if only because I would read through the actual book every lesson we spent studying it at school.

It's funny, when I was reading Of Mice and Men, the movie ended up airing on TV. Likewise, when I was reading The Outsiders, the movie showed up on TV. Crazy coincidences!

I liked the movie better. I think you get George's feelings through more when you see him all alone, knowing what he had to do at the end of the book. :(

The second Harry Potter film. I actually preferred it to the book... can't say the same for the rest of them, though.

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Partially related but slightly OT...

The TV version of 'The Dresden Files' was so fucking bad compared to the books I nearly ripped my own tits of in frustration.

WHO was that chick pretending to be Murphy?!

Bob the skull was NOT a skull?!?!

And having listened to the audiobook version, I found the dude they had playing Harry to be deeply disappointing compared to James Masters.

Holes is as close to perfect as a book-based movie could possibly get.

Fried Green Tomatoes is...in some ways better than the book. The book's plot wasn't as strong as the movie's (too many side plots/characters imo, kind of fell apart). But the movie tried to hide the gay relationship by pairing Ruth with Buddy which gave her and Idgie a really awkward age gap that bothered me even when I was little.

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Watership Down cuts one subplot (the Bright Snares warren) down so much I wonder why they didn't just omit it, but other than that, it's a pretty great adaptation.

Peter Pan (2003) and Matilda.

To Kill a Mockingbird and Gone with the Wind stayed true to character phenomenally.

Princess Bride. 100% the Princess Bride.

And, honestly, while there will always be angry purists I thought LotR was a fucking awesome adaptation. Tolkien wasn't big on characterization, so I thought the movies actually improved on that, and any changes in plot I felt were necessary for the conversion to movie format. Also for having the balls to make 3 4-hour-long movies, damn.

Pretty much every Neil Gaiman adaptation I've seen I've liked just as much - if not more - than the original book. Stardust and Coraline come to mind... not sure if there are any others...

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Howl's Moving Castle. I read the book long after seeing the movie and I love them both in their different ways (though slightly preferring the book). The movie gave Howl such life and whimsy and captured Sophie's character perfectly, and I enjoyed how they made Howl's greatest enemy himself (something I feel was a lost opportunity in the book, considering the man had no heart and I think it should have made him darker and more dangerous than he was).

Perfume! It's one of my favourite books and I am usually not a fan of adaptations (like a lot of people, I guess) but that one retained the atmosphere, characterisation, plot. Like you said, a few minor bits changed and there was ONE big change, I don't even know if I would call it characterisation or plot tbh but it would have been difficult to convey in film without being cheesy, which I thought was detrimental to the story. But apart from that, I thought it was insanely well done.

Also The Help. I really liked the book but I thought the film was actually BETTER. First time that's ever happened, I think. I know it's a potentially problematic book/film and some people have been offended by it but as a piece of entertainment that's how I found it.

Sorry, that was long. I get very chatty when it comes to books haha.

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I felt that the Coraline movie was better than the book.

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